THE GREATER London Council has launched an all-out effort to implement a night and weekend ban on lorries in the region at the...

SEVERELY DEPRESSED col mercial vehicle business help keep BL as a loss-making bu: ness in the first six months the year, but it...

Several Labour councillors, including committee chair Dave Wetzel, wanted last weekend's meeting to press for earlier...

AD HAULAGE permit quotas cannot be reconciled with the free de principles of the Treaty of Rome and should be abolished as )n...

COMPANIES which have made good use of their Italian general quota permits this year and in the past will be offered an 18 per...

IGLO-IRISH bilateral agreement discussions were taking place in blin this week against the background of a dispute over alleged...

STAFFORDSHIRE haulier Philip Taylor alleged last week that he was threatened with physical violence by police officers if he...

SEVERAL OVERNIGHT delivery services will start life at the Distribution Services Show at Wembley next week, ensuring more...

SCOTTISH rural operators' campaign to be represented on West Coast shipping services advisory committees are at last having...

AN OKEHAMPTON by-pass has been given the go-ahead and will be under construction by 1985, while a by-pass in the Leeds area is...

AN INCREASE of 150 per cent Severn Bridge tolls for comm cial vehicles proposed by 1 Department of Transport I come under...

BREWERY DISTRIBUTION cc pany Bar Delivery Servir (BDS), owned jointly Southern British Road Servi and Whitbread London,...

IN THE WAKE of his much-publicised truck ride to Italy during the summer, Staffordshire East MEP Robert Moreland is optimistic...

USERS of Lucas Kienzle tachographs and associated equipment can now take advantage of a national insurance maintenance scheme...

Overloading advice bookle A BOOKLET on the prevent of vehicle and axle overload has been published by United Kingdom Agricultu...

THE AVERAGE price of diesel oil per gallon in the UK during tember was £1.68. This represents an increase of 115 per ceni dery...

TSPUR SHIPPING has concluded a deal with Skandinavisk pedition which will result in weekly groupage services between richester,...

THE ROAD HAULAGE Association wants a united front from all modes of transport to urge the Government to stop the decline in...

TRANSPORT AND Distribution Management Selection is a new company set up to take over the task of management recruiting for...

ALMOST HALF the 17,580m miles travelled by heavy goods vehicles last year in England were on motorways and trunk roads, the...

Scammell 6x2 LEYLAND will be showing its new 6x2 20.32 tractive unit in Glasgow at the Scottish Motor Show this November....

RCEDES-BENZ UK has added a second 6x2 tandem steer, 38 nes gcw tractive unit to its range. 3 Mercedes promised earlier year...

THE BRITISH Standards Institution has issued a draft specification for spray-reducing devices for heavy goods vehicles and has...

EUROPEAN manufacturers of commercial vehicles have been warned of French plans to demand speed limiters for heavy lorries and...

AUTOMATIC Truckloadir Systems (Europe) has Intl ADCLIFFE Engineers has won an order worth 000,000 for the supply of 70...

BOALLOY has helped Ferrymasters solve its problem of scuffed curtains and damaged strap buckles on curtainsided trailers parked...

Technical Nem duced a mobile box trailer cc tamer unit which provides h loading and offloading for pal tised or non-palletised...

TRANSPORT refrigeration co pany Hubbard Engineering is ganising a nationwide exhi tion tour during October demonstrate its...

A £750,000 DEAL has been struck between National Travel East and holiday company Club 18-30 to provide 10 coaches on summer and...

THE TORIES are set to have e wide ranging debate on transport at their annual conference in Blackpool this month, writes our...

A MAJOR marketing initiative to sell the Scottish Bus Group's internal coach services as one product is launched today...

A NEW INDEPENDENT has been established in Orpington, Kent to run a group of stage services previously operated by Tillingbourne...

BUSINESS on London Transpo expected by fares reductions in this year is expected to become A report to the Greater London...

THE TOPICAL question of safety r of long-distance coaches has been of the European Parliament by two egulations governing the...

Rural busing seminars RURAL public transpori Britain and Europe will go ur the spotlight on November when the Polytechnic of...

AN ASSISTANT accountant s defrauded Eastern Scottist more than £2,000 in se months has been ordered tc 240 hours of community...

LAST WEDNESDAY was a big day for both . public transport and the pensioners. It was the International Transport Workers...

York triple-deckers K TRIPLE-deck platform ilers, the first built by York iiler, have just been delivered Irish Ale Breweries...

'Given the potential for iening of consumer outlets increased sales, the purse price should inevitably , allowing the high...

THE REPERCUSSIONS of last years' cold spell will be an incentive to prepare against the same problems this year. Low...

THE TURBOCHARGED Perkins TV8.540 engine has obtained a BS AU 141a certificate for a power output of 194kW (260bhp). The...

THE WILCOX GROUP Bodies has taken up a 75 per cent holding in CMC Bodies of Market Deeping, Peterborough to provide a wider...

PER to your Public Utilities e (CMJuly 2) and would like omment upon your Editorial the articles discussing the re of municipal...

ICHES ARE SAFE and a a great deal to offer. it was the reassuring ssage delivered to an ience of coach operators I tour agents...

Alan Gurley of the Bus and mch Council did a great job in Ming coach safety into irspective when he described St how tightly...

CANNON DID. • L, —York Freight - master:You can't cut costs by cutting corners. and complain when they said that there is a...

Verite Baker was the next speaker. She is managing director of Ambassadors of Britain, and in her presentation she described...

INKING while driving is larded by Gary Lumpkin, a trict judge in Oklahoma, USA, childish behaviour requiring oropriate...

ITHIN 20 seconds of an .:ident occurring on a 60-mile 'etch of Dutch motorway, mputers switch on warning jns. In Britain, says...

HEARD the latest one about the Wood Report? This one is true. The copies circulated in July were prized rarities. They were...

PUT ON a false beard and no one will spot you. The Freight Transport Association's traffic officer, Don McIntyre, hoping to...

ROBOTS at the Renault factory at Douai work on two eight-hour shifts, with three shifts in the press shops. This human...

OH! HAPPY DAY, di-tertiary butyl peroxide may now be carried by road in tankers or tank containers. But the Health and Safety...

IN A WITTY hour-long speech, Transport Secretary Tom King gave delegates a résumé of the tribulations currently facing the...

FACING, AN audience made up almost entirely of staunch antiWood 1 Report campaigners, Derek Wood seemed justifiably uneasy as...

JTURE pattern of transd distribution was a topic by three speakers on the day of the conference, )eaker taking it in turns to...

THE DAYS of British Rail as a common freight carrier have gone, BR deputy chief executive (railways) Geoff Myers said in a...

Product development is the category most likely to catch transport managers unawares, he said. He highlighted the developments...

THE SIGNIFICANCE of FTA director-general Hugh Featherstone's high profile closing presentation of his 25 years in transport was...

by George Malcolm g foreign could ur downfall 'ORT operators who eign" might be tempted le their policies if they letall a...

IN THE MIDDLE of last year this column tried to take an objective look at capacity control in road haulage. It suggested that,...

THE TRI-AXLE trailer opz s initially been the most ar choice for 38-tonne on, many operators are I at three-axle conver-. )r...

ME-STUDY packs are now illable as a CM/Road nsport Correspondence Jrses Special Offer to prepare the Royal Society of Arts...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport's detailed proposals for amendments to the 0-licensing system have attracted a good deal of lively...